In a case involving LinkedIn, a federal appeals court reaffirmed Monday that web scraping likely doesn’t violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the ...

LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running. Two class action complaints were filed by different law firms on behalf of ...

Cyber professionals at big firms are offering to help scammers create criminal products or “your money back” – with even non-cyber staff and professional voice actors offering to rip off firms or ...

"LinkedIn has already sent enforcement threats to users of third-party tools, using data obtained through this covert scanning to identify its targets,” the group claims. However, LinkedIn claims that ...

A New York-based web developer and his colleagues have built a web-based application for people to see if their LinkedIn password hash is among 6.5 million released on a Russian hacker forum. The ...

The report found that LinkedIn will look for 6,222 extensions and claims the company can harness the data to profile users and see whether they’re using competitors’ software. However, LinkedIn says ...

What just happened? A US appeals court has reaffirmed an earlier ruling that states companies or individuals who scrape publicly accessible data from the web aren't breaking the law. The result ...

LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services. LinkedIn had announced plans to switch to Azure and away from ...